Ticket-printing machine.



J.VVHITE.

TICKET PRINTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED IAN.12, 1911A 1,()19,10'7. Patented Maf. '5, 19142.

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J. WHITE.

TICKET PRINTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12, 1911,

mmm lIli'k' IN[lll JQ' TEST JOSEPH WHITE, OF PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP,MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.

TICKET-PRINTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 12, 1311.

Patented Mar. 5, 1912.

Serial No. 602,209.

To all whom j may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W'HITE, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing in Piscataway township, Middlesex county, State of New Jersey,(whose post-oliice address is Bound Brook, New Jersey,) have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements Relating to Ticket-PrintingMachines.

This invention has for its object the printing of dates or otherdesignations upon successively presented tickets. These tickets arepreferably made in strip form in a roll with the main portion of theYticket printed upon. It is often desirable to have some designatingmark printed upon the tickets at the time they are sold, and the machineherein described is arranged to print this date or designation upon theticket by as simple a means as possible, and at the same time have thisdesignation register with the matter which` has originally been printedupon it.

While various machines have been constructed for the purpose of printingtickets to register with matter previously printed upon them, thesemachines have been arranged so that when they are operated they feed thetickets through the machine; but the machine herein described isarranged so the source of operating power is derived from the ticketstrip, and all that is necessary in operating it is to thread the stripin the machine, and by pulling the same through the machine, themechanism will register itself, so that the tickets will be printed uponin the proper place as each one passes through the machine.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of the machine, andFig. 2 is a sectional elevation of Fig. l..

The standards 1 and 2 of the machine are mounted upon a base 3 and uponthe same base is a standard 4 in which is placed a roll of tickets 5.These tickets as has been mentioned, have been printed upon with theappropriate printing matter and in addition have been punched withnotches or holes by means of which the tickets will be registered to thedating machine in a manner to be hereinafter described. The particularform of these notches or punch holes may be varied widely but in theform` of ticket shown they consist of three holes, 6. The printingcylinders or rolls of the machine consist of a lower impression roll 7and an upper or type roll 8 between which the ticket is passed andreceives its printing. At the same time these rolls serve as pressurerolls and when the ticket is pulled through between them they revolve,causing the type form (in a manner'to be described) to receive lits inkand to place its imprint on the ticket.

In order to secure the printing of date on the ticket in the spacelreserved for it, the tickets or machine must be adjusted by somedevice. In the machine illustrated this registration is taken care of asfollows: The impression cylinder 7 and type cylinder 8 each has aperiphery of about two ticket lengths (for a reason to be hereinafterdescribede-preferably slightly less), and the impression surface isprovided with two sets of pins 9 (diametrically opposite) which engagethe holes of the tickets as the cylinders are revolved when the ticketsare pulled between them. The cylinder 8 has holes l0 provided for thepins for clearance purposes. At the time the ticket holes 6 engage thepin 9 it is desirable that the cylinders be placed lout of pressureengagement with each other so that the ticket may engage the pins and solocate itself with relation to the cylinders. The method of causing thedisengagement may be varied widely but in the referable form, as shown,the periphery o? the cylinder is cut away where the pins are located inthe cylinder. This cut-away as shown consists of a flat l1 upon thesurfaces of the cylinder, and when said flat surface comes opposite thetype cylinder the pressure is removed from the tickets, but held inproper relation by the pins passing through the pin holes. The pin holesare preferably slightly larger than the pins, and the cylinder is madeslightly smaller in circumference than two ticket lengths so that thepins will pass into the holes at about ytheir center, or slightlyforward of their center, and when the cylinders are reroll; saidsegments alternately engaging the my vhanl in the presence of twosubscribing strip between them and the impression roll; Witnesses.

said adjusting means engaving the strip at the register perforationsWlen said strip is JOSEPH *WHITE out of engagement With the type and im-Vitnesses:

pression roll. R. H. MCCUTCHEON,

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set C. F. BRYAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing*the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

